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How AI Agents Can Verify Seller Policies Before Making Autonomous Purchases
The agentic commerce stack has payment rails, checkout protocols, and agent identity verification. It's missing one thing: seller trust. The Gap Nobody Talks About Over the past six months, the infrastructure for AI agent commerce has come together fast. Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP) went live in October 2025, giving agents cryptographic identity so merchants know they're dealing with a legitimate AI buyer.
Read Now: Hazardous Location Equipment Markings Global Compliance
By Engaged Expert Andy Smith Product Qualification Testing With over 20 years of experience, Andy leads our Skelmersdale laboratory, supporting customers to overcome complex, technical, and challenging problems; specializing in the equipment designed for use in explosive areas. For manufacturers of equipment designed for use in hazardous locations, the compliance journey can be complex and confusing.
Risk and existing building assessments: understanding the approach
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Viewpoint: Safety must be our highest priority
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Geotechnics and sustainability: a short guide
Andy Smith presents some project-related objectives that geotechnical and structural engineers can use to improve the sustainability of a project's foundations. The construction sector has a key role to play in achieving the UK government’s target of reaching net zero in greenhouse emissions by 2050, with construction and the built environment accounting for 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions1.
Award-winning children's podcast takes flight with Virgin Atlantic
Not-for-profit participatory arts organisation, Made By Mortals, is spreading its wings after joining Virgin Atlantic’s entertainment offering as the airline’s first inflight children’s podcast. Virgin Atlantic teamed up with the Manchester-based CIC to offer its young passengers an unforgettable flight experience with its award-winning podcast, Armchair Adventures.
From technological barriers to leadership focus: lessons from managing teams remotely both pre- and post-pandemic
Former civil servant Andy Smith shares his experiences of working and managing teams remotely – in both the public and private sector – from the early 90s to start of the coronavirus pandemic, and what he’s learnt about telework from a technological, cultural, and management perspective Over the last two years we have seen a dramatic change in working practices. Driven by the coronavirus pandemic, organisations were forced, almost overnight, to abandon conventional offices for remote working.
Perceived Social Support, Reinjury Anxiety, and Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport in Soccer Players
The burden of sports injury in soccer is high, and return to sport outcomes following injury are often poor. This is compounded by a current lack of understanding surrounding the factors that may optimize psychological readiness to return to sport. Consequently, in the present study, we aim to further our understanding of these issues by examining the role of perceived social support in predicting psychological readiness to return to sport.
Perceived Social Support, Reinjury Anxiety, and Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport in Soccer Players
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Johannesburg, South Africa By Andy Smith, CEO, Sandown Capital According to Preqin’s 2022 Global Private Equity Report, the total size of the global private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) asset pool is already well above US$5 trillion and is expected to surge to more than $11 trillion by 2026. However, as it stands today, global allocation of this asset pool to Africa is well below 1% and falling in real terms.
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